THE SOIL ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 206862 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC039168 (OSCR)

- Building public awareness about the benefits of organic food and farming through: education and public information; and public events programme.- Training and support for producers on organic practice.- Regional development programme to link producers to consumers at a local level.- Ensure the integrity of organic food by the continued development of organic standards.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group made a surplus of £233k for the year, with total turnover increasing by 16% to £24.9 million. The Trustees report that free unrestricted reserves of £1.024 million are within the target range of £900k to £1.8 million, though they note these reserves are expected to decline in the coming months due to economic challenges and cost reductions.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Soil Association (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £2.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Stanley Burgess · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Ann Missen
• Jonathan William Spencer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kirsty Marie Shaw
• Neil Hugh Morris
• Philip Edward Fearnley
• Prof Isabel Oliver
• Richard Friend Allan
• Sabine Vandenbroucke
• Steven Lancaster Lizars
• Victoria Stevens

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOIL ASSOCIATION LAND TRUST.

• THE SOIL ASSOCIATION LAND TRUST income £639k
• ASSOCIATION OF SHOW AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATIONS income £160k
• NATIONAL SHEEP ASSOCIATION income £1.5m
• ESSEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £100k
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF SOIL SCIENCE income £712k
• THE BURWARTON AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £352k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.